Within 10 Years Computers Won't Even Keep

General Fiction Is Pretty Much About Ways That People Get Into Problems And Screw Their Lives Up. Science Fiction Is About Everything Else.

It Makes No Sense To Seek A Single Best Way To Represent Knowledge-because Each Particular Form Of Expression Also Brings Its Particular Limitations. For Example, Logic-based Systems Are Very Precise, But They Make It Hard To Do Reasoning With Analogies. Similarly, Statistical Systems Are Useful For Making Predictions, But Do Not Serve Well To Represent The Reasons Why Those Predictions Are Sometimes Correct.

When David Marr At Mit Moved Into Computer Vision, He Generated A Lot Of Excitement, But He Hit Up Against The Problem Of Knowledge Representation; He Had No Good Representations For Knowledge In His Vision Systems.

Listening To Music Engages The Previously Acquired Personal Knowledge Of The Listener.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.